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30-year-old US man dies after attending 'COVID-19 party'
COVID-19" party hosted by an infected person, a doctor has revealed, underlining the risk to younger people.Jane Appleby, chief medical officer at the Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, said the man thought the virus was a hoax, despite it killing more than 135,000 people in the United States so far."Someone will be diagnosed with the disease, and they'll have a party to invite their friends over to see if they can beat the disease," Appleby said in a video broadcast by US media on Sunday."One of the things that was heart-wrenching that he said to his nurse was, 'You know, I think I made a mistake.'"He thought the disease was a hoax.